The new Euro V-compliant Quester heavy-duty and Croner medium-duty truck ranges are set to be rolled out in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

The new 79-seater Aero Star, launched in Japan in September, comes with new safety features and complies with the latest regulatory standards regarding driver vision.

UD Trucks will trial a Quon truck equipped with Level-4 technologies at Kobe Steel's Kakogawa Works site in the second half of 2022.

The Hydrogen Heavy Duty Vehicle Industry Group, including Hyundai, Toyota, and Nikola, has agreed to push ahead with a common global standard for hydrogen refuelling technologies to help “bring hydrogen closer to wide scale adoption”. 

Mitsubishi Fuso has begun series production of the new Fuso Canter at the firm's plant in Tramagal, Portugal.

A global memorandum of understanding was signed by fifteen governments at COP26, agreeing, among other commitments, to an interim goal of 30% of all new medium- and heavy-duty vehicle sales to be zero-emission by 2030.

Daikin Europe has unveiled its first range of Daikin branded refrigerated cooling units at the Solutrans show in Lyon, France.

GATR EV in the Midwest United States has ordered 1,150 electrified trucks based on Hino glider chassis.

The city of Sydney will receive funding from the federal government to facilitate the deployment of 40 electric vehicles across the city.

Refrigerated solutions firms Daikin Reefer of Osaka, Japan, and IRS International of Laverton, Australia, have announced that their European projects will operate out of one combined headquarters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Bridgestone Tire Manufacturing Thailand Co., a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corp., based in Tokyo, Japan, has added solar panels to the roof of its manufacturing facility in Chonburi.

Hiringa Energy Ltd, based in New Plymouth, New Zealand, has announced the start of construction on its first four high-capacity green hydrogen refuelling stations for heavy-duty vehicles. The company plans to bring 24 more hydrogen stations across New Zealand over the next 4-5 years.